No one is surprised who reads NetHappenings that you are spied on.
Contact-tracing apps used to track protestors.
I’ve been warning everyone about losing their privacy for what?? like the past 25 years?
Yes, I have.
It’s not like warning you that just cause you have nothing important to say doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care about your privacy. What you do in your search engine should be private.
WEAR THE DAMN MASK
One thing to understand about masks is viral dose:
Evidence suggests it takes a big dose of the Coronavirus to cause an infection.
Masks can be effective even if they don’t block 100% of pathogens, because they can still lower your viral dose and protect you
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST SPYING PROBLEM?
FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM & WHATSAPP
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sanberg make their money doing everything that is bad for our children, and our democracy.
THEY SHOULD BE FIRED!
The board of directors are complicit. They could just kick them both out tomorrow!
The two most lawless presidents of the last 60 years have both been the most insistent on “law and order”.
The BEST war protest song ever recorded.
“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming. We’re finally on our own.” What a brilliant, unforgettable writing. 50th anniversary of Kent State University shooting. Who is listening to this now in the midst of the protests?
All those kids are now in their 60s and 70s. And politicians still don’t know any better.
The Dead:
Jeffrey Glenn Miller; age 20; shot through the mouth; killed instantly
Allison B. Krause; age 19; fatal left chest wound; died later that day
William Knox Schroeder; age 19; fatal chest wound; died almost an hour later
Police are there to PROTECT and SERVE the citizenry.
After “take a knee” was ridiculed and Trump didn’t listen but bullied, now we are asking why not peaceful protests and againwhite supremacists start the violence.
The law can’t criminalize protestors. It is not illegal to protest in the streets.
@realDonaldTrumpPlease stop injecting yourself into crises. Don’t try to tell governors what to do. Instead of calling for calm & for the nation to unite, you were sequestered in the White House basement & silent. Governors and mayors, on the other hand, were actively (1/5)
Military are soldiers trained to kill. Military Equipment sold or given to the Police kill people with it. That is the opposite of their jobs.
Police do not get military training, so when their knee goes down on your neck, you die. The military are trained. They don’t do it unless they want to kill you. Untrained police who do it are killers. Police have made themselves illegitimate and can’t enforce law.
Every city whose police decided to walk with protestors did not see rioting. Rioting is the voice of rage when police are murdering civilians.
Holly Figueroa O’Reilly – An independent autopsy was performed on George Floyd’s body, and guess what? He was asphyxiated. He was murdered, not just by the cop who kneeled on his neck, but also by the cops who kneeled on his back, compressing his lungs. Arrest those other three fuckers NOW.
Riots in 111 cities
$3.7 Trillion Deficit
40 million unemployed
Highest unemployment since the Great Depression 103,800 deaths
► ► WHO IS THIS SERVING
► ► WHO IS THIS PROTECTING
When Civilian Protest Is Labeled ‘Urban Warfare’
By Nick Baumann // Nick Baumann is The Atlantic’s politics editor.
This is what escalation looks like. “The situation on the ground in Minneapolis & St. Paul has shifted & the response tonight will be different as a result,” the Minnesota Department of Public Safety tweeted as businesses boarded up their windows and the Saturday sun sank low over the Twin Cities. The National Guard and law-enforcement presence would “triple in size,” the state agency warned, “to address a sophisticated network of urban warfare.” “Urban warfare” is a striking choice of words for a state agency, and one that cable-news anchors seized on and repeated in the fiery hours that followed. For the fifth straight night, Americans marched and chanted—and some rioted and looted—overwhelmed with frustration and rage by the Monday killing of George Floyd, who died while a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Prosecutors charged Chauvin with manslaughter and third-degree murder on Friday, but three other police officers involved in the incident remain free. And the current protests are about not one black man’s death, but thousands of them, and centuries of discrimination, dehumanization, and denial of basic civil rights. <//>
Good news! FISA is Dead
A vote that would have reauthorized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the basis of U.S. spying laws that allows the NSA to collect vast amounts of web and phone data, was scrapped this week after the president threatened to veto the bill.
Bad news. The Sandworm hacker group, linked to power outages in Ukraine and other major cyberattacks, is actively exploiting a security flaw in efforts to break into computers run by the U.S. government.
Idiot Arkansas Governor called in the FBI Arkansas calls the person who discovered a breach a criminal Another good-faith researcher facing the backlash of a confused and reactive politician. Arkansas Times: So, this happened. Arkansas’ unemployment assistance website had a bug that was exposing Social Security and bank account numbers. A computer programmer found the bug and got in touch with a reporter, who flagged the issue to the state’s governor’s office. So far so good — I’ve done this countless times before. Fix the bug, job done. But that’s where things got messy: the governor’s office called the person who found the breach a criminal, claiming the website had been “exploited.”
DHS wants access to more photos
U.S. Homeland Security is linking its facial recognition database to the FBI, the Department of Defense, and the Department of State, which will allow DHS staff vast access to other departments’ facial recognition databases. That will help DHS access records on more passport and visa holders, and correlate names against those who have fallen into the criminal justice system. DHS already has 250 million people’s biometric data from border crossings. But State and the FBI have much bigger databases, and DHS wants in.
Taiwan News: Taiwan government database leaked on dark web.It was reported on Friday (May 29) that a government database of more than 20 million Taiwanese citizens was leaked on the dark web. According to researchers at Cyble Inc., Toogod, a known and reputable actor was found to have released the data titled, Taiwan Whole Country Home Registry DB, onto the dark web. It is unusual for an entire nation’s database to be leaked, Cyble reported. The data is from the Ministry of the Interior’s Department of Household Registration.
Financial Lynching Must Be Part of the National Debate
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 1, 2020 ~
As we watched the dangerous scenes of protesters interacting with riot police and the ransacking of banks and businesses in cities across the United States this past weekend, a warning from the 19th century abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, came to mind:
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
► ► @Jack owner of Twitter, Square Space and a Bank has finally had enough of Trump’s lies and now fact checks TRUMP’S tweets, his family’s tweets, his staff tweet’s and his bot tweets. Trump can’t do anything about it. Not a god damn thing. FINALLY!
► Social Media Bots Fake Twitter / Instagram Followers are the business model that @Jack relies on for his advertising money.
American company named Devumi that has collected millions of dollars in a shadowy global marketplace for social media fraud. Devumi sells Twitter followers and retweets to celebrities, businesses and anyone who wants to appear more popular or exert influence online. Drawing on an estimated stock of at least 3.5 million automated accounts, each sold many times over, the company has provided customers with more than 200 million Twitter followers, a New York Times investigation found. Of course Twitter policy doesn’t allow fake accounts but his company doesn’t get rid of fake bot accounts to keep his advertising money. It isn’t a code flaw it is a feature.
Court records showing that Devumi has more than 200,000 customers, including reality television stars, professional athletes, comedians, TED speakers, pastors and models.
For just pennies each — sometimes even less — Devumi offers Twitter followers, views on YouTube, plays on SoundCloud, the music-hosting site, and endorsements on LinkedIn, the professional-networking site.
Mark Zuckerberg created a website to rank his female classmates by their appearance and it ended up destroying democracy, in case you’re wondering about the consequences of toxic masculinity.
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► Some Universities Are About to Be “Walking Dead”
ACADEMIC THUGGERY
Best description: Yale / Harvard (9 schools) is a Exclusive Brand Finishing School only for the Elites that reinforces the caste system and costs $350,000 a year making 90% profit when NOTHING in the world gets those margins. WHAT A RACKET!! This is mandatory viewing! <► more>
► A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist
Creativity is, and always will be, a human endeavor. A community has to accept ideas as good for them to count as creative. Philosophers and mathematicians defer work on fundamental questions to “superintelligent” successors, which he defines as having “intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest.”
► Chinese Baby Formula Brands Fail Domestic Food Safety Inspections
A woman feeds a baby with a bottle in a residential area in Beijing on August 8, 2013. China has repeatedly been rocked by scandals involving domestic baby formula brands tainted with unsafe materials. The most serious occurred in 2008 when scores of infants fell sick or died from baby formula tainted with melamine, a toxic compound. Nearly a decade later, there are still food safety concerns at many major brands. For several days, the China Food and Drug Administration published notices
@weeklystandard@smarickTrends in governing have eroded the beliefs, norms and processes by which we learn to be accommodating citizens in a pluralistic, deliberative democracy. By manufacturing rights that limit democratic decision-making, centralizing power in Washington far from citizens’…
► Amy Klobuchar didn’t prosecute officer at center of George Floyd’s death
In 2006 Amy Klobuchar, then a district attorney, declined to bring charges against a cop who had shot and killed a Native American man. Two days ago that cop, Derek Chauvin, murdered George Floyd. Amy Klobuchar needs to resign.
► “Your regular reminder that Equifax still exists. Everyone who was running the company when 148 million Americans’ data was stolen is still rich, and now their former lawyer is running the office at the Federal Trade Commission that’s supposed to investigate them.”
“Massive data breach at the OK Securities Commission, millions of files containing decades worth of confidential case file intelligence from the agency and sensitive FBI investigation source materials exposed.
Axios “The SEC has charged a group of hackers with perpetrating a 2016 breach of its online corporate filing portal making more than $4.1 million in gains from using non-public information about companies.
National Music Publishers’ Association The Copyright Royalty Board ruled that songwriters will get at least a 15.1% share of streaming revenues over the next five years, from a previous 10.5%. The CRB’s decision will require streaming services to pay 15.1 percent of revenue to songwriters and publishers, up from 10.5 percent. The court also issued a ruling regarding a late fee, which will force digital music services to pay songwriters faster, or be subject to a significant penalty. Amazon, Apple, Google, Pandora and Spotify compelled to pay more for the use of music.
Pryor Cashman who represented NMPA and NSAI in the litigation that resulted in the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) being ruled to increase royalty payments to songwriters and music publishers from music streaming companies.
This was a hearing pitting songwriters and music publishers against five technology companies, including three of the largest companies in the world (Apple, Amazon and Google), which sought to reduce the already low rate of royalties that they pay to songwriters for the use of their music on their streaming services.
► The US firm behind the deadly tech, Francisco Partners, wouldn’t answer questions. It’s backed by money from Goldman Sachs & Blackstone.
New details of how deadly Israeli technology—used to spy on Khashogi associates & other dissidents—made its way to Saudi. Note: the US firm behind the tech, Francisco Partners, wouldn’t answer questions.
► Paul Mozur China is in the midst of one of the nastiest social media crackdowns I can recall. Over the past few months 100s – maybe 1000s – have been called in by police for the crime of being on Twitter and expressing opinions about China.
► Gerry Shih Fascinating look inside the “Tiger’s Cage” where China’s elite prisoners are held. Wang Lijun the police chief who fled to the US consulate in the BXL scandal now “spends his time studying English.” BXL walks around in a business suit instead of uniform
► VTzilla: Mozilla Firefox Browser Extension
VTzilla is a Mozilla Firefox browser plugin that simplifies the process of scanning Internet resources with VirusTotal. It allows you to download files directly with VirusTotal’s web application prior to storing them in your PC. Moreover, it will not only scan files, but also URLs.
► The US firm behind the deadly tech, Francisco Partners, wouldn’t answer questions. It’s backed by money from Goldman Sachs & Blackstone.
New details of how deadly Israeli technology—used to spy on Khashogi associates & other dissidents—made its way to Saudi. Note: the US firm behind the tech, Francisco Partners, wouldn’t answer questions.
► Paul Mozur China is in the midst of one of the nastiest social media crackdowns I can recall. Over the past few months 100s – maybe 1000s – have been called in by police for the crime of being on Twitter and expressing opinions about China.
► Gerry Shih Fascinating look inside the “Tiger’s Cage” where China’s elite prisoners are held. Wang Lijun the police chief who fled to the US consulate in the BXL scandal now “spends his time studying English.” BXL walks around in a business suit instead of uniform
► VTzilla: Mozilla Firefox Browser Extension
VTzilla is a Mozilla Firefox browser plugin that simplifies the process of scanning Internet resources with VirusTotal. It allows you to download files directly with VirusTotal’s web application prior to storing them in your PC. Moreover, it will not only scan files, but also URLs.
COPYLEFT / OPEN SOURCE
► Nicholas C. Zakas on Twitter:
“Mom: Dad said you invented a thing? ESLint?
Me: Yes.
Mom: What is it?
Me: It finds and fixes problems in JavaScript.
Mom: Huh. Do people use it?
Me: Basically everyone writing JS.
Mom: How much did you make on it?
Me: Nothing.
Mom: I don’t understand your industry.
Me: Me either.”
► Open Collective @opencollect
Organizing the Internet generation, one community at a time.
► Bryce Weiner “The true financial power of cryptocurrencies aren’t in the limited supplies which drive market volatility, but in the ability to mint your own money. That’s what “being your own bank” really means.”
► Hacker Fantastic “2,982 bitcoin miners exposed to the Internet, have factory default credentials of “root/root” and an insecure unsigned firmware update process… this is going to end in tears
►Shodan is the world’s first search engine for Internet-connected device Antminer
► Tim Bray · Google Memory Loss is ongoing – google isn’t coughing it up anymore / they don’t waste their effort going back to get what you are looking for – this has become the worst search engine to use.
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Who is Patoshi?
Patoshi is the dominant miner in early bitcoin. He can be more or less identified because btc was previously including a “blocks mined since start up” parameter (extraNonce) It’s not a sure thing that he’s Satoshi but it’s widely believed so.
Twitter Bitcoin Mentions Now Almost Exactly Mimic Market Cap Dominance. Tweets including Bitcoin are far ahead of altcoins, but there are major similarities between Twitter and market cap rankings.
Hong Kong is now run by China. Anyone doing any business through Hong Kong will never have a solid deal of any kind that they can count on. Jeffrey Ngo 敖卓軒 👷♂️🥽🌂🎒 on Twitter: “Thank you, @SenMarkey, for spotlighting misinformation about #HongKong on @facebook, which receives advertising payment from the Chinese propaganda machine, in your letter to Mark Zuckerberg. You are right that he shouldn’t facilitate Beijing’s “repressive actions.”
Some Universities Are About to Be “Walking Dead”
America’s Caste System is alive and well. College is only meant for those who afford to spend a fortune that an Oligarch is entitled to.
A “Degree” grandfathered in, for their entitled position.
What is the word for this? oh yeah… moral something something?
An education costs $350,000.00 for what exactly?
People seeing those classes online thinking – what I’m paying for?
Second AASA COVID-19 Survey
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SECURITY
VOTE — Paper ballots are a war on electronic voter fraud and manipulation which we actually know happens since it’s demonstrated every year at DEFCON.
Defying Trump, Twitter Doubles Down on Labeling Tweets THERE IS NOTHING HE CAN DO TO TWITTER OVER FACT CHECKS HIS LIES. An excellent, relatively brief analysis of Trump’s executive order text attacking Section 230 and social media firms — and the First Amendment — from Daphne Keller of Stanford CIS Appeals court rules in favor of Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter in anti-conservative bias suit
is now richer than Warren Buffett – makes me throw up a little
A company owned by Joel Zamel, an Israeli entrepreneur whose work has drawn the scrutiny of special counsel Robert Mueller, formed a strategic partnership with a data firm for President Donald Trump ’s campaign in a joint bid to win business from the U.S. government and other clients after the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the matter. The Psy-Group, one of Mr. Zamel’s firms, signed a memorandum of understanding with Cambridge Analytica LLC, a digital media firm that helped propel Mr. Trump to the presidency, these people said. Facebook Inc. in March suspended Cambridge over allegations that it improperly harvested the data of millions of Facebook users, accusations that in part led to the firm’s closure earlier this month.
Public access court electronic records.
All major news orgs need PACER beat reporters like they have for FOIA. The same could be said for New York’s eCourts system – absolutely brilliant amount of newsworthy material to be had for the finding. #FreePACER
A Field Guide to zkSNARKs (Part I) : A Primer on Computation
The introduction of Bitcoin in 2009 turned more research attention towards generalized blockchains, and privacy issues lead in turn to seeking methods to make blockchains more private.
If you’ve been using #Zcash$ZEC to protect the anonymity of your cryptocurrency transactions, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have some bad news for you…
“Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges” with pretty graphs
ShinyHunters is a hacking group on a data breach spree Wired ($): A new hacking group on a selling spree. In the first two weeks of May alone, the group known as ShinyHunters have posted 200 million records from at least 13 companies on the dark web, including Home Chef and allegedly other companies like Zoosk. It’s the same group that allegedly stole 500GB of Microsoft source code from a private GitHub account. The group is following in the footsteps of a similar hacking group, known as GnosticPlayers, which stole data on dozens of companies last year.
New details have emerged on how Grayshift, a company that sells iPhone hacking technology to law enforcement, breaks into devices when it doesn’t have the user’s passcode. NBC says when Grayshift’s technology, known as GrayKey, can’t unlock an iPhone, there’s another option: a spyware app called Hide UI, which can capture a user’s device unlock passcode when it’s typed in. But cops said the passcode app is buggy and doesn’t always work.
Bluetooth Impersonation Attacks, is the name for a new set of flaws in the Bluetooth standard that can allow an attacker to bypass Bluetooth’s authentication procedures that take place when a Bluetooth device starts a connection. An attacker can then impersonate a device and take control of, or siphon off, data from another device. A number of devices are vulnerable, including Apple MacBooks, iPhones, iPads, and a number of Lenovo and HP laptops.
Washington state rocked by coronavirus benefit fraud in ‘the hundreds of millions
Trump took his mask off bc he ‘didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it’
Here it is!
Corona Virus #100,000 DEAD
#Vacationers flocked to the Lake of Ozarks
“White House adviser Kevin Hassett: “Our human capital stock is ready to go back to work.” #HumanCapitalStock
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No one is surprised who reads NetHappenings that you are spied on.
WEAR THE DAMN MASK
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST SPYING PROBLEM?
Military are soldiers trained to kill. Military Equipment sold or given to the Police kill people with it. That is the opposite of their jobs.
